Poorna Jagannathan is known for making TV fans laugh and cry in equal measure. As Nalini on Mindy Kaling’s Netflix hit Never Have I Ever, the 52-year-old actress played a strict and caring ...

Poorna Jagannathan plays crime boss Lucky Auntie in the Hulu comedy series Deli Boys — a mix of Tony Soprano and The Real Housewives of Orange County, as Jagannathan describes her — a role that ...

Poorna Jagannathan “couldn’t find” inspiration for her recent mob boss character, Lucky from Deli Boys, in any of her normal prep work. "I couldn't find her because strong women like that, they're not ...

Above all else, Lucky needed to be funny, and to pull that off, Jagannathan reveals, "I look at a character, and I look at what's already on the page in terms of what she says and her actions, and ...

The “Deli Boys” would be nowhere without Lucky Auntie. Although the new Onyx Collective comedy focuses on Pakistani American brothers Mir (Asif Ali) and Raj (Saagar Shaikh), the duo would be ...

There is a moment, unscripted, in Hulu’s “Deli Boys,” in which Poorna Jagannathan and Tan France start cursing at each other in Urdu. “It really made us think, when we’re at our most primal, these two ...

Poorna Jagannathan (Deli Boys, Lanterns) and Gary Carr (Genius: MLK/X, The Peripheral) are the latest stars cast in the Apple TV+ and A+E Studios as-yet-untitled series based on the bestselling crime ...

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Is anyone on TV having more fun than Poorna Jagannathan right now? She stars in the Hulu comedy Deli Boys from Abdullah Saeed (out March 6), in which two Pakistani American brothers inherit their late ...

In a television landscape saturated with South Asian tropes — think: dutiful doctor, tech nerd, spiritual guru, bearded terrorist — Hulu’s Deli Boys arrives like a shot of spice-infused adrenaline.